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T. S. MURPHY, Jr. 86 W. H. DAVISON. TEMPORARY BINDER.

No. 440,110. Patented Nov. 4, 1890.

UNITED STATES THOMAS S. MURPHY, JR,

YORK, ASSIGNORS TEMPORARY BINDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 440,110, dated November4, 1890.

Application filed October 5, 1887.

have invented new and useful Improvements in Temporary Binders, of whichthe following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in jointed or hinged book-covershaving removable leaves upon which or within which may be filedinvoices, bills, cuttings, sheet-music, pzlli-mphlets, papers, prints,memoranda, or the li c.

It also relates to jointed or hinged covers within which may be fastenedfor preservation, and from which may be withdrawn for use readily,invoices, bills, scraps, clippings, music, papers, pamphlets, &c.

It also relates to jointed or hinged covers having leaves dividedlaterally and removable, in which may be preserved for ready referenceprints, papers, and memoranda of every description.

Our invention consists of covers jointed or hinged to astiff back, whichis provided with removable lacings longitudinally, or suspensorythreads, for the purpose of holding the leaves or articles to be filed,so that they may be readily removable, and so that when the covers orleaves or articles filed are opened the adjacent cover and leaves orarticles filed will lie fiat or level.

Our invention further consists in and relates to self-binding devices soarranged with self-locking removable lacings or strands and removableleaves that when the leaves or articles filed are opened at any pagethey will lie fiat from the back to their outer edges and may alltogether or separately be removed from the covers.

It also relates to devices for locking and unlocking the strands, sothat each may be removed or replaced separately.

These objects we attain by means of the construction shown in theaccompanying drawings on one sheet, which form part of thespecification, and in which- Figure 1 shows covers A A open, disclos- 5oing leaves ZZ, inserted in some of the strands,

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plates 19 p, and removable suspensory lacings a. Fig. 2 shows covers A Apartially removed, with leaves removed to show suspensory strands amounted upon plates or caps or clips 19 p, and one strand partiallywithdrawn a c. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through covers, leaves,strands, and back piece I) at X on Fig. 2. Fig. 4 shows selflockingadjustable strand, cap, or plate or clip 10, one screw 3 being shown.

The same letters in each figure designate the same parts of theinvention.

As illustrated in the drawings, the appliance consists in a stiff backboard, (a vertical section of which is shown at b, Fig. 3,) pref erablyrounded at the back, with the opposite surface flat, upon which we.mount and hinge the covers A A, as in the ordinary well-known methods ofbinding covers upon books. The inner face of back board b may beconcaved or convexed, but is preferably fiat, to form a back rest forthe folded edges of the leaves to prevent their too free play upon thestrands a a. The back board may be of metal suitably formed forsustaining the covers and caps or clips 19 p, or these clips may bestamped or molded in one piece with the back piece. Upon the ends of theback piece we mount the suspending clips 19 19', Figs. 1 and 4, suitablycut away at Z Z to accommodate the covers A A at their jointed juncturewith the back piece.

At suitable distances apart along the upper edge of the clips we arrangeperforations c 0', preferably in a straight line; but they may be curvedoutwardly or inwardly along the correspondingly-curved edge of the cap.The clips project above the face of the back piece to allow thesuspensory strands a a to be mounted suspensorilyfrom clip 10 to clip p.

The lacings or strands a, a are constructed, preferably, of wire, andare mounted upon the clips 10 p by being inserted in the perfotions 00'. These perforations may be circular, and the projecting ends of thestrands may be rigidly fastened therein or upon the clips, or may belocked to the clips by being coiled upon the clips, as in Fig. 2, or maybe headed, as at c, Fig. 2, to prevent their being u min i of a singlepiece of wood, preferably pulled out or away from the clips by theweight of the leaves. The coiled end may readily be unloosened and thestrand removed from the clip; but, preferably, we construct the clips asshown in Fig. 4, having key-hole perforations c 0, through which thehead of a strand 0, Fig. 2, maybe inserted and be locked with the clip,the weight of the leaves on a strand drawing it up into the diminishedpart of the slot. In this way each strand may at each end be locked orunlocked readily upon the clips and readily removed or replaced.Obviously other well-known equivalent constructions may be employed inmounting the lacings or strands upon the suspending-clips. Thus a secondclip may be mounted upon the face of the clip p by screw or thumb nut orother well-known constructions, so as to clamp and hold by frictionbetween the adjacent faces of the clips the bent ends of the strands sothey may be removed at will. We also mount the clips upon the backboards adjustably therewith. To accomplish this, we slot the clip 0 0,Fig. 4, so that it may be adjusted by means of thumb-nut screwsorsimilar equivalent device for the purpose of raising or lowering thestrands relatively to the face of the back board to restrain the play ofthe leaves, and for the purpose of readily removing the clip (withoutreleasing the strands therefrom) together with the strands mountedthereon, to permit the free removal of the leaves or replacing thereof.The slots may extend to the edge of the clip, as at dotted lines 0, Fig.4, and one or more slots may be employed in each clip, one acting withascrew as a hinge; or, obviously, instead of one broad clip 19 severalnarrower clips provided with one or more perforations each, and eachprovided with the slot-adjustingdevice may be employed. The leaves aresuspended from the strands, Fig. 3, one or several sheets or articlesover a single strand to be sustained thereby. Later-allydivided ordifferent-sized sheets may be used upon which to attach invoices, bills,memoranda, clippings, samples, prints, &c., in usual well-known ways.Sheets with indexes or other devices for reference may be used, and thestrands may be more or less in number, according to the character of thearticles desired to be filed for preservation within the covers. One orall sheets or articles filed may be readily removed without injuring thefiling device, which can be repeatedly filled by replacing the leaves.The sets of strands may be divided by inserting one or more clipsperforated, as described, at suitable distances apart along the face ofthe back board, and each strand may be readily unlocked and removed withthe leaves or articles suspended therefrom without interfering with theothers by pressing the head a down till it can slip out of the enlargedpart of the key-hole perforation 0'. In like manner, without the use ofthe intermediate sheets, pamphlets, samples in dress goods, ribbons,sheet-music, 850., may

be held bound within the covers or removed at will. Obviously, also, thecovers and suspensory device may be of any size to suit the necessitiesof the matter desired to be filed; also, the covers may be omitted, andalso pockets employed instead of folded leaves forthe retention ofletters or other matter. Obviously, or pocket being suspended, hinged,and thereby bound upon its separate strand, and the strands beingadjustable at suitable distances apart and near or far from the backpieces, when the covers or leaves are opened the uppermost leaves willlie fiat upon those below, and not be bulged at the back part by reasonof the lower or under leaves being tightly bound, as in the ordinarybinding of a book, since the back piece readily adjusts itself anglingwith the covers as the leaves are filled in.

The figures show the perforations on the caps in a straight line; butthey may be in an outward or inward curved line to effect a tighter orlooser binding of the leaves and to adapt the construction to desiredobjects.

The methods of construction and of operation and the advantages of ourinvention will be obvious to those skilled in the art from the foregoingdescription without further explanation.

We claim as of our own invention- 1. The combination of self-lockingseparablydetachable suspensory strands, a sustaining back or frame, andadjustable clips, substantially as described.

2. In a temporary binder, the clips p 19, provided with angledperforations, combined with a back or support, and removable suspensoryself-locking strands, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a back or support, and strand-clips provided withperforations adapted to receive and sustain strands separably detachabletherefrom and self-locking therewith, substantially as described.

4.. The self locking and detachable strands mounted upon a back adjustably therewith by means of adjustable perforated supportingclips,withcovers and leaves to form a selfbinding file, substantially asdescribed.

5. The combination of a back piece 6, separably-detachable strands a a,and adjustable clips to form a temporary binder.

6. The combination,in atemporary binder, of the back I), detachableself-locking suspensory-strands a a, and adjustable supportingclips 1919, substantially as described.

7. A temporary binder provided with suspensory strands mounted upon aframe or back and having perforated clips with which said strands areself-locking, substantially as described and shown.

THOMAS S. MURPHY, JR. WILLIAM H. DAVISON.

Witnesses:

DAVID S. SAXE, ERNEST W. RI'ECK.

also, each sheet or group of sheets I or

